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* The corny, and impossibly catchy theme to [http://youtu.be/FF38gMdGhYM Camp Cariboo], a Canadian kids show.
* Even TV station ''vanity plate'' fanfares can be mini-ear worms in their own right. Try to find the full-length versions of the Rediffusion London, Thames Television and 1982 Channel 4 fanfares.
* The concept is used in an episode of French TV series ''[[Kaamelott]]'': [[King Arthur]] can't get out of his head a song he heard from a minstrel ("À la volette", a traditional children's song). He spends most of the episode getting distracted and trying to get the melody out of his head (even interrupting a council to sing it out loud). Ironically, the series was so popular that the song itself became once more well-known and remains a prime example of the Ear Worm in France.
* The "You Are the Best" [[Training Montage]] song from ''[[The Colbert Report|Tek Jansen]]''.
{{quote|'''[[Stephen Colbert]]:''' That song just digs into your brain like an alien parasite.}}
* The series ''[[Medium]]'' has this in the episode "The Song Remains the Same", with Alison having "I Will Survive" blaring in her head making her shout and barely hear what people are saying. At one point the "record" skips, only continuing when she got closer to the broken iPod of the missing girl.
* An episode of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek the Next Generation]]'' features a Ear Worm in the form of an [[Ironic Nursery Tune]] (on music box, natch) that produces enough [[Psychic Static]] to freak out Troi to the point of madness.
* ''Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger VS Abaranger'':
{{quote|'''Jasmine:''' Please excuse me. ''(place hand on Ryouga's hand)''
'''Narrator:''' ''(while clipshow of ''Abaranger'' goes on)'' Jasmine is an ESPer. Whoever she touches, Jasmine recaps his memories.
'''Jasmine:''' Seems true for now. I have my doubts for them though -- ''(walks to the camera)'' -- ''[[Dancing Theme|Aba-Aba-Aba-Aba-Abaranger!]]''
'''Umeko:''' What the heck was that?
'''Jasmine:''' Don't know either. It was on loop in his brain. }}
* The ''[[Seinfeld]]'' episode "The Jacket" has George dealing with the fact that "Master of the House" from ''[[Les Misérables (theatre)|Les Misérables]]'' is stuck in his head.
* ''[[Scrubs]]''
** The episode "My Musical" ends with the current current Sacred Heart patient humming the song she heard the staff sing when she first entered the hospital {{spoiler|which is ironic because her eardrums going to explode is what threatened her life in the first place.}}
** Also the episode where they can't get the Erasure song "Give a little respect" out of their heads.
* "Goodies Rule OK", a ''[[The Goodies]]''' special, has them (among other things) writing a motivational song called "Bounce!", which causes everybody who hears it to perform the accompanying dance. Britain goes bankrupt because everybody is bouncing instead of working.
* An episode of the ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'' [[Continuity Reboot|reboot]] has a song suddenly and mysteriously force its way into the heads of four characters. They aren't even sure what it is or where it came from, but for several days, they hear it everywhere, driving them slowly insane. Apparently, if your brain gets infected by a driving cover of "All Along The Watchtower", you {{spoiler|just might be a Cylon}}. (Said cover is also a powerful Ear Worm in real life.)
* ''[[Doctor Who]]''
** A Jon Pertwee-era episode has Jo Grant resist the Master's hypnosis by reciting "The Walrus and the Carpenter" by [[Lewis Carroll]].
** Speaking of the Master, he's apparently had the same Ear Worm continuously since he was eight, {{spoiler|when the last Time Lord president implanted it in his head}}. He once spread it to the entire human race in order to take over the world.
* British comic duo Hale & Pace did an episode with this as a running gag.
{{quote|''You're never going to get this song
''Out of your head, out of your head,
''You're never going to get this song
''Out of your head, out of your head'' }}
::Then later, after it's [[Overly Long Gag|gone on a bit...]]
{{quote|''The only way to get this song
''Out of your head
''Fire some lead
''Into your head'' }}
::He does. They sing the song at his funeral. He sits up out of his coffin ''screaming''.
* ''[[The A-Team]]'' references this trope in Season 4:
{{quote|'''Murdock:''' I've had "Three Blind Mice" by the Lennon Sisters goin' in my head for the past three days.}}
* ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'', (paraphrasing):
{{quote|'''Loreli:''' I finally found out how to get "Lazy Hazy Crazy Days" out of our heads. [[It Got Worse|Just sing "It's a Small World" over and over]].}}
* In ''[[Good Luck Charlie]]'', Bob describes a jingle as the basic concept of an Ear Worm: "A catchy little tune that sticks in your head and drives you a little bit crazy."
* ''Naor's Friends'' (basically the Israeli version of ''[[Seinfeld]]'') has an episode in which a woman gets the song "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jAEQyy3iOA Shuvi laYam]" stuck in Naor, Dedi, and Weizmann's heads out of spite, because they were frustrated with how long it took her to finish her business on the ATM machine they were waiting to use. It got so bad they called a specialist, who played the Ketchup Song ("a lesser catchy song") in their heads on repeat for long enough to get it out, but warned them not to hear the original song for 24 hours. As luck would have it, the café they went to got robbed while they were there, and "Shuvi laYam" started playing on the radio... Which made them [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|angrily take down the robbers, who were armed with machine guns, pepper the radio into smitherenes, and save everyone in the café]]. At least the song got out of their heads...
* On ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' Ted and Marshall are on a long road trip in a car with a casette tape of "500 Miles (I'm Gonna Be)" stuck on an endless loop.
{{quote|'''Ted:''' I am. So. Sick. Of this song.
'''Marshall:''' Don't worry, it comes around again.
'''Ted:''' What do you mean? }}
** Cue [[Gilligan Cut]] to Marshall ''and'' Ted enthusiastically singing along.
* An episode of ''[[Drop the Dead Donkey]]'' had a [[The Swear Jar|Nessun Dorma box]] for people caught humming the theme of the Italia 90 world cup.
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